What’s the story?

The reporting of complex family court judgments. We are grateful for this guest post from Sanchia Berg, a reporter for Radio 4’s Today programme. She covers major news stories and also delivers original journalism- notably in fields of Education, Immigration, History...

Adoption Statistics – again (part 2)

In part 1 we responded to a blog post by John Hemming on the Marilyn Stowe blog. We raised some queries which Mr Hemming answered in a blog on his own blog. It’s taken us a few days to respond, but here is what we think of that response.   Firstly,...

The journalist who believes that lawyers always lie?

In today’s Telegraph, Christopher Booker has written about a case where care and placement orders for two children were made in Rhyl Family Court in April 2014. You can read the judgment on Bailii here. In April, HHJ Gareth Jones said in his judgment: ‘The...